Updated
PERM jobs in Rock Valley, IA
- Decisions
- 95
- Approved
- 97.8%
- Median certified wage
- $25,480
- Years
- FY2016 to FY2026
Year by year
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years run October to September. More
Fiscal years run October to September. FY2016 to FY2023 come from DOL's closed-year files, and FY2024 on from its current ones. The newest year is partial until DOL publishes its fourth quarter.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| FY2019 | 51 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- MEADOWVALE DAIRY LLC 88
- Valley Industrial Powder Coating 4
- Hegg Health Center 2
- VG Farms Ventures Inc 1
Top occupations
Industries
- Dairy Cattle and Milk Production 88
- Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers 4
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 1
- Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 1
- Support Activities for Crop Production 1
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- None 67
- Bachelor's 11
- High School 2
Visa held when filed
- NOT IN USA 64
- TN 11
- F-1 1
- H-2A 1
Where Rock Valley, IA sits
- County
- Sioux County
- Census places Rock Valley city in it
- Metro area
- Outside any metro area
- DOL wage area
- Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals75 PERM decisions
- Animal Scientists11 PERM decisions
- Helpers--Production Workers4 PERM decisions
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists2 PERM decisions
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers1 PERM decisions
Each row has its own scale, marked at its ends: these jobs pay too differently to share one. The table compares them.
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
| Job | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals | $30,750 | $29,869 | $33,322 | $36,774 | $40,227 |
| Animal Scientists | — | $61,277 | $82,035 | $102,794 | $123,552 |
| Helpers--Production Workers | $45,610 | $43,202 | $45,365 | $47,528 | $49,691 |
| Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists | — | $46,384 | $53,997 | $61,589 | $69,202 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers | $58,540 | $42,682 | $52,125 | $61,547 | $70,990 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
The worksite city on each application, from DOL's decided cases since FY2016. Spellings of one city are pooled, and a city counts as one place per state.
Case data through Jun 30, 2026 · Census places and metros through Jan 1, 2026 · BLS market pay through May 31, 2025 · DOL wage tables through Jul 1, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Census places and metros: Census Bureau Gazetteer and metro delineation files (census.gov) · data through Jan 1, 2026 · yearly
BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring
DOL wage tables: DOL OFLC wage data downloads (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jul 1, 2026 · yearly, each july
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
Census places and metros: Where each worksite city sits: its county, metro area and DOL wage area, matched to Census's place and county files. A city Census lists in no single place is left unmatched. This site doesn't guess it.
BLS market pay: Pay employers report for everyone in each job, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). It's shown nationally, by state and by metro. It covers citizens and immigrants alike, and it isn't drawn from PERM offers.
DOL wage tables: The four prevailing wage levels DOL publishes for every job in every area, each wage year from 2021-22, as DOL's own tables print them. They're the floors an offer is held to. They don't show what anyone was paid.
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